In the book, Carl F. H. Henry by Bob E. Patterson, Bob states that Henry is one of America’s outstanding Protestant evangelical theologians and scholars. Henry has authored almost forty books, one of his latest being The God of Ages and the gods of this Age. He has lectured and taught on campuses, including Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fuller Theological Seminary, and several institutions in America and countries on every continent. He was the founding editor of Christianity Today magazine, reaching out to thousands of evangelicals on a biweekly base. This exposure enabled Henry to tactfully shape his message and become the principal journalist, in which he defined and defended conservative Protestantism, for the evangelical movement in the late 1950’s.

What is an evangelical? Richard Quebedeaux, America’s chronicler of Evangelicalism, defines an evangelical “ as a person who attests to the truth of, and acts upon, three major principles (1) the full authority of Scriptures in matters of faith and practice; (2) the necessity of personal faith in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord (conversion); and (3) the urgency of seeking the co

Carl Henry’s focuses on refuting secular and liberal views; his basic apologetic stance is that of presuppositionalism: all reasoning begins with certain unproved assumptions or fundamental rules that cannot be proven beforehand but can be indirectly verified by tracing out their association in a test of logical consistency.

Carl Henry was innovative in the way he thoroughly helped guide classical Christian orthodoxy to its present status. Quebedeaux says, “it is now quite possible to talk about Evangelicalism as the established expression of Orthodoxy in the United States, if not in the world. He also states that this original evangelical revival had three important public symbols that gave it national attention—the National Association of Evangelicals, Billy Graham, and the periodical Christianity Today”. Carl was intimately associated with all three (p.51).

Carl Henry’s Christian theology centers on revelation and God, he feels that out of the eight fundamental doctrines, in Christian theology, the other six doctrines will blend into his treatment of these two doctrines. His feelings on these two doctrines are crucial, for the 20th century and this two-foci style suits his apologetic thrust (p.160).

With Henry’s formal education in theology he would teach at Northern Seminary until 1947, then he would be invited to join the faculty to help start the newly founded Fuller Theological Seminary. Fuller Seminary was the brainchild of evangelist Charles E. Fuller and Harold J.

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